R Observatory: Metrics for disttools version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

disttools

0.1.8

Distance Object Manipulation Tools

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zachary ColburnFirst published 2019-03-042 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides convenient methods for accessing the data in 'dist' objects with minimal memory and computational overhead. 'disttools' can be used to extract the distance between any pair or combination of points encoded by a 'dist' object using only the indices of those points. This is an improvement over existing functionality, which requires either coercing a 'dist' object into a matrix or calculating the one dimensional index corresponding to a pair of observations. Coercion to a matrix is undesirable because doing so doubles the amount of memory required for storage. In contrast, there is no inherent downside to the latter solution. However, in part due to several edge cases, correctly and efficiently implementing such a solution can be challenging. 'disttools' abstracts away these challenges and provides a simple interface to access the data in a 'dist' object using the latter approach.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("disttools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-disttools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-disttools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-disttools

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 53 s · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.75

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 241 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,955 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

Releases R versions

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15530 days

58490 days

2.6K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Zachary Colburn

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Zachary Colburn

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation

Copyright holder, Funder

Funders (1)

Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation

Copyright holder, Funder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.8Latest
2022-02-05 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.7
2019-03-04
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-04
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("disttools")

Format

Colburn, Z., & Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation. (2022). disttools: Distance Object Manipulation Tools (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.disttools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for disttools version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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